The Mediterranean Sea used to be filled with pirates who terrorized not only Ancient Greece but Rome as well. Long before the ...

During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the leading states of the 3rd ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Legends surround love, that crazy feeling that can inspire the most beautiful songs, but also the most terrible wars. History is full of famous love stories.The most famous gay couple of antiquity ...

Formalising and regulating the deployment of ex-soldiers as mercenaries could address economic, social and geopolitical ...

Airborne particles from minting coins damaged health, a new study says, and might have contributed to the Roman Empire’s ...

Archaeologists in Montaione, Florence, Italy, have discovered a rare ancient statue of Hercules, dating back to the 3rd or 4th century.

This medicinal plant was so coveted, it was worth its weight in gold. But this ultimately brought its downfall.

Inside the super-private Torlonia Collection of ancient marbles, and the strategy to clean them up and bring them back into ...

Doha, Qatar: Minister of Labor HE Dr. Ali bin Samikh Al Marri met Sunday with Minister of Economy and Labor of the Republic of North Macedonia HE Besar Durmishi. The meeting explored ways to ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...